The Great Wall stretches over 13,000 miles across the northern borders of China and was built over centuries by China's emperors to protect their territory. Recent scientific analysis of plant ...

One of the innumerable legends surrounding the construction of the Great Wall of China tells of a workman who estimated that he would need 99,999 bricks to construct a section of the wall now known as ...

Introduction : who made the Great Wall of China? -- 1. Why walls? -- 2. Long wall -- 3. Han Walls : plus ça change -- 4. Shifting frontiers and decadent barbarians -- 5. China reunited -- 6. Without ...

"This fear factor, this war driver is a very strong one and it's been with this species ever since the beginning and it motivated the Great Wall of China."- Neil deGrasse Tyson The Great Wall of China ...